Peggy longs for the days when she was a young hottie and important, at least in her own mind.
I am sick of Peggy. Never anything positive to say about Bush. Her Inaugural speech critique was the end for me, and this is more of that.
Is it just me, or has Peggy NOT aged well? She's only about 55, but I think she looks older than that. In fact, I'd always figured her at early 60s or so until I looked up her bio (born in 1950).
She's still a hottie in my book, but then again I'm as far away from being young as she is.
Noonan thinks that nothing is important outside of Ronald Reagan and his cold warrior speeches.
Also, Noonan has lately moved on from simply being wrong to being sickening, especially with her upper-crust-of-society way of speaking.
If fact did you notice that it is NOONAN who seems to be talking "at" us, not President Bush in the SOTU speech. GWB is so folksy in his mannerisms that he NEVER seems to be talking at anyone.
Which leads me to the obvious conclusion that Noonan is now PROJECTING her own foibles, just as the Democrats and leftists have been doing the past four years.
A shame really, Noonan can be enlightening, but not when she gets into this East Coast criticism mode in which she dismisses anything with a twang of country as being dumb.